South Korea summons Russian and Chinese military attaches after aircraft incident

Record ID: 1424479

  • Title: South Korea summons Russian and Chinese military attaches after aircraft incident
  • Date: 23rd July 2019
  • Summary: SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (JULY 23, 2019) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF RUSSIAN AIR FORCE ATTACHÉ, NIKOLAY MARCHRNKO (LEFT) AND RUSSIAN NAVY ATTACHÉ, SERGEY BALAZHIGITOV (RIGHT), WALKING TOWARDS SOUTH KOREA'S JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF BUILDING RUSSIAN MILITARY ATTACHES WALKING, BEING APPROACHED BY JOURNALIST ASKING QUESTION CHINESE MILITARY ATTACHÉ DU NONG YI (FRONT) GETTING OFF CAR AND EN
  • Embargoed: 6th August 2019 07:49
  • Keywords: South Korea Defence Ministry summons Russia China military officers
  • Location: SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA
  • City: SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA
  • Country: South Korea
  • Topics: Defence,Government/Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA001AOZZBK7
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: South Korean military summoned Russian and Chinese military attaches on Tuesday (July 23) after the two countries' aircraft entered South Korea's air defence identification zone.
    Earlier in the day South Korean warplanes fired hundreds of warning shots at a Russian military aircraft that entered South Korean airspace, defence officials in Seoul said, with Chinese bombers also entering South Korea's air defence identification zone.
    South Korea's Foreign Ministry spokesman Kim In-chul said that three Russian military aircraft and two Chinese military aircraft entered the KADIZ, which is the Korea Air Defence Identification Zone.
    Among them a Russian early warning and control aircraft later twice violated South Korean airspace over Dokdo - an island that is occupied by South Korea and also claimed by Japan, which calls it Takeshima - just after 9 a.m. (0000 GMT Tuesday), according to the South Korean military.
    (Production: Dogyun Kim, Minwoo Park)
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